Did David Bowie predict his own death with his last album, Blackstar?

Shocking the world with his unexpected passing just two days after the release of his album, Blackstar, we take a look at some of the gloomy lines from his last LP

As tributes start pouring in for David Bowie's untimely passing (just hours after the 2016 Golden Globes wrapped up), we mourned the only way we could — through his music. Within minutes of listening to his final LP, Blackstar, which was released just two days ago on his 69th birthday, we've noticed just how gloomy the songs are.

Bowie's 26th release, the seven-track Blackstar brings together the best of Bowie from his illustrious, four-decade long career. The opening track, Blackstar, is a long nine minutes, before bringing us on a journey of electronic rock, jazz rock and retro nuances that combine the old and new. Listening to the songs after his passing, some of the lines particularly sting, making us yearn for what's passed.

In Blackstar, his cries echo tragically:

Something happened on the day he diedSpirit rose a metre and stepped asideSomebody else took his place, and bravely criedI'm a blackstar, I'm a star's star, I'm a blackstar

Lazarus, his last single released, hints at disregard:

Look up here, man, I'm in dangerI've got nothing left to loseI'm so high it makes my brain whirlDropped my cell phone down below

Dollar Days is a contemporary reaction to current affairs:

I'm dying toPush their backs against the grainAnd fool them all again and againI'm trying toIt's all gone wrong but on and onThe bitter nerve ends never endI'm falling downDon't believe for just one second I'm forgetting youI'm trying toI'm dying to

Blackstar is the artist's fitting goodbye — to a life and career that has shaped the music industry in the last four decades, broken boundaries and inspired the generations to come. Goodbye, Ziggy Stardust.